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Table of Contents
100 THINGS YOU WILL NEVER DO
33
Daniel Smith
AIR
38
Lisa Glass
ALICE AND THE FLY
37
James Rice
AND THEN CAME PAULETTE
19
Barbara Constantine
THE ARC OF THE SWALLOW
7
S.J. Gazan
ASKING FOR IT
36
Louise O'Neill
BINARY
14
Stephanie Saulter
BLOOD WEDDING
16
Pierre Lemaitre
BLUE
40
Lisa Glass
THE BOY IN THE SHADOWS
23
Carl-Johan Vallgren
THE BRAMARD CASE
25
David Longo
BREAKING LIGHT
5
Karin Altenberg
CAN ANYBODY HELP ME?
28
Sinead Crowley
THE CHILD EATER
26
Rachel Pollack
THE CHIMES
9
Anna Smaill
DARKNESS DESCENDING
21
Ken Jones
DEATH IS A WELCOME GUEST
2
Louise Welsh
A DOG'S LIFE
Michael Holroyd
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DOMINUS
11
Tom Fox
EMPERORS ONCE MORE
22
Duncan Jepson
ENGLISHMAN IN MADRID
27
Eduardo Mendoza
ENTRY ISLAND
18
Peter May
THE FATHER
1
Made in Sweden, Part I
Anton Svensson
ICE COLD
20
Andrea Maria Schenkel
KNIGHT'S SHADOW
15
Sebastien de Castell
LAND WHERE I FLEE
6
Prajwal Parajuly
THE LANGUAGE OF DYING
31
Sarah Pinborough
THE LIBRARY OF UNREQUITED LOVE
8
Sophie Divry
LOOK WHO'S BACK
13
Timur Vermes, Jamie Bulloch
MAGNA CARTA
34
The Medieval Roots of Modern Politics
David Starkey
NETYMOLOGY
29
From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World
Tom Chatfield
NEWS FROM BERLIN
35
Otto de Kat
OATH OF THE VAYUPUTRAS
24
Amish Tripathi
REGENERATION
10
Stephanie Saulter
SAMMY FERAL'S DIARIES OF WEIRD: VAMPIRE ATTACK
Eleanor Hawken
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SEOUL SURVIVORS
30
Naomi Foyle
SPIRA MIRABILIS
3
Aidan Harte
STONEBIRD
41
Mike Revell
STORMWALKER
39
Mike Revell
TRUE DARK
43
Gary Meehan
TYRANT'S THRONE
17
Sebastian deCastell
UNHOLY WAR
32
David Hair
WHAT YOU WANT
12
Constantine Phipps
Order Information Sheet
44
Quercus
The Father
Made in Sweden, Part I
Anton Svensson
DESCRIPTION:
How does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son?
An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and the
narrative depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by the
extraordinary true story of three brothers who committed ten audacious bank
robberies in Sweden over the course of just two years.
None had committed a crime before. All were under 24 years old. All of them
would be changed forever as individuals and as a family.
This intoxicating, heartbreaking thriller tells the story of how three boys are
transformed over the course of their lives from innocent children to the most
wanted criminals in Sweden. And of the man who made them that way: their
father.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
Co-author
Stefan Thunberg's father and brothers were Sweden's most notorious
bank robbers, dubbed Militärligan (The Military Gang), in real life
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Sweden
Anton Svensson is a pseudonym for Stefan Thunberg & Anders
Roslund
Stefan Thunberg is a celebrated screenwriters. His body of work
spans popular TV-series including Wallander and Van Veeteren. The
Father is his debut novel.
Anders Roslund is an award-winning investigative journalist. He
is part of the bestselling author duo Roslund & Hellström, winners
of the CWA International Dagger, the Glass Key and the Swedish
Academy of Crime Writers' Award.
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Death is a Welcome Guest
Louise Welsh
DESCRIPTION:
The second installment in the thrilling new Plague Times trilogy from the author
of A Lovely Way to Burn. Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break
when the world came to an end. Now, he is a man on the run and there is nothing
to laugh about. Thrown into unwilling partnership with an escaped convict,
Magnus flees the desolation of London to make the long journey north, clinging to
his hope that the sickness has not reached his family on their remote Scottish
island. He finds himself in a landscape fraught with danger, fighting for his place
in a world ruled by men, like his fellow traveller Jeb - practical men who do not let
pain or emotions interfere with getting the job done. This is a world with its own
justice, and new rules. Where people, guns and food are currency. Where survival
is everything. Death is a Welcome Guest defies you to put it down, and leaves you
with questions that linger in the mind long after you read the last page.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
The
second installment in the thrilling new Plague Times trilogy from the author of
A Lovely Way to Burn.
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Louise Welsh is the author of five highly acclaimed novels including The Cutting
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including The Cutting Room and, most recently, A Lovely Way to
Burn. She has been the recipient of several awards. Death is a
Welcome Guest is the second novel in the Plague Times trilogy.
www.louisewelsh.com
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Jo Fletcher Books
Spira Mirabilis
Aidan Harte
DESCRIPTION:
In the 1347th year of Our Lady the engineers of Concord defeated the fractious
city-state of Rasenna using the magical science of Wave Technology. The City of
Towers fought back, and for a while Concord's plans for domination were halted.
But First Apprentice Torbidda regrouped, and reformed Concord to his own
design. Now he is in absolute control, and plotting the final battle that will pacify
Etruria... permanently. Contessa Sofia Scaligeri could rally her people once again,
but she is far away in the Crusader Kingdom of Akka, trapped with her son by the
tyrant Queen Catrina.
Darkness is falling. The final battle must be fought and the tide must be turned,
lest evil reign forever.
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sculpture, he worked in animation and TV; in 2006 he created and
directed the TV show Skunk Fu, which has been shown on Cartoon
Network, Kids WB and the BBC.
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MacLehose Press
A Dog's Life
Michael Holroyd
DESCRIPTION:
Eustace is the undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family -that is, he would be if
everyone left him alone so he could get on with things, like shaving, and finding
his way downstairs. It's not Henry's fault that he snores and that his marriage has
collapsed. He is a good father, and one day, when he wakes up from daydreaming, his son Kenneth will thank him.
It is good that Anne sleeps with a whistle in her mouth -how else could she terrify
the burglars? As for Mathilda, she wold love to like her mother, but prefers going
for long walks with the dog. But what will happen to them all if the dog dies?
Placing this eccentric family in isolation after two world wars and at the beginning
of an aggressive financial culture, turns comedy into tragedy. A Dog's Life brings a
very personal addition to Michael Holroyd's remarkable career.
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Michael Holroyd was at school at Eton and completed his
education in public libraries. His biographies of Lytton Strachey,
Augustus John, Bernard Shaw, and Ellen Terry established him as
one of the most influential biographers of modern times. He was
awarded a C. B. E. in 1989 and knighted in 2007, and is President
Emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Breaking Light
Karin Altenberg
DESCRIPTION:
Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and
memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor
village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he lost as a
boy so long ago.
Slowly the mysteries hidden in this small community on the edge of the moors
begin to unravel. But one of Gabriel's memories remains sharper than all the
others: that of his boyhood friend Michael, the tenderness of their first summers
and the violent betrayal that destroyed it.
And, intruding on his self-enforced isolation, the beautiful Mrs Sarobi, meddling
Doris Ludgate and the frightful spectre of Jim of Blackaton will become bound in
with Gabriel's search for acceptance and the possibility of love.
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Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Award
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novel, Island of Wings, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book
Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was longlisted
for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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Land Where I Flee
Prajwal Parajuly
DESCRIPTION:
Three Westernized siblings return to their Himalayan hometown to pay respects
to their grandmother on her 84th birthday and confront buried family tensions.
Now in his debut novel, Land Where I Flee, Parajuly has created a moving family
drama about returning home. To celebrate Chitralekha Nepauney's Chaurasi on
her eighty-fourth birthday, three of Chitralekha's grandchildren are travelling to
Gangtok, Sikkim, to pay their respect, all with the same goal: to emerge from the
celebrations with their formidable grandmother's blessing and their nerves intact:
a goal that will become increasingly impossible thanks to a mischievous maid and
a fourth uninvited guest.
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AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE:
New York & Oxford, England
Prajwal Parajuly, the son of an Indian father and a Nepalese
mother, divides his time between New York and Oxford, England,
but disappears to Gangtok, his hometown in the Indian Himalayas,
at every opportunity. Parts of his first collection of stories, The
Gurkha's Daughter, were written while he was a writer-in-residence
at Truman State University, in Kirksville, Missouri.
facebook.com/prajwalparajuly
Follow on Twitter @prajwalparajuly
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The Arc of the Swallow
S.J. Gazan
DESCRIPTION:
When controversial Professor Kristian Storm is found hanged in his office, his
assistant Marie Skov refuses to believe that he has committed suicide. Having just
returned from West Africa on a research trip, the late scientist had uncovered a
shocking truth about immunology programs in the developing world.
With the unlikely help from a Nobel Prize-winning rival of Storm's, former police
detective Søren Marhauge is determined to prove what really happened to the
professor. Interwoven in this thrilling storyline are deeply-moving portraits of
Skov's troubled family and Marhauge's tenuous relationship with his girlfriend,
another biologist. The result is a complex page-turner that establishes S.J. Gazan
as a world-class author.
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Denmark
S.J. Gazan graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a
graduate degree in biology. By incorporating science with murder,
and recognizing the secrets and drama of everyday life, Sissel-Jo
Gazan has found a unique style that makes her stand out on the
Scandinavian crime writing scene. Her debut work of crime fiction,
The Dinosaur Feather, was awarded the 2008 Denmark Radio
Literature Prize for Best Novel of the Year and went on to become an
international bestseller. Gazan lives in Berlin with her husband and
two children.
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MacLehose Press
The Library of Unrequited Love
Sophie Divry
DESCRIPTION:
El Pais called The Library of Unrequited Love "a thrilling soliloquy, an exciting
breath of love." The librarian, a single, middle-aged woman, a sharply opinionated
and thoughtful bookworm, whose ex-boyfriend left her for another woman,
discovers one morning a patron who has been locked in over night.
Against her quiet nature, she starts to talk to him, what results is a soliloquy of
frustrations, observations, and anguish, covering—with wit, pathos, and passion—
history, literature, the Dewey Decimal System, love, and loneliness, as well as
revealing her unrequited passion for a quiet student-researcher named Martin,
whose studiousness, grace, and "beautiful neck" strikes her.
Divry's prose is seamless—never laborious—both funny and poignant. The book's
compactness offers an immersive reading experience that touches universal
emotional experiences from the perspective of a bookworm.
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Offers
an immersive reading experience that touches universal emotional
experiences from the perspective of a bookworm.
Divry combines literary chops, history, and cultural criticism with
The
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France. The Library of Unrequited Love is her first novel.
Sian Reynolds is a past winner of the Scott Moncrieff Translation
prize, and has translated many French writers, from Fernand
Braudel to Fred Vargas.
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The Chimes
Anna Smaill
DESCRIPTION:
After the end of a brutal civil war, London is divided, as slums stand next to a
walled city of elites insulated from the poverty of the city. Monk-like masters are
selected for special schooling, shutting themselves away for decades studying to
compose the chimes, beautiful compositions played morning and night citywide,
to mute the memory and keep the citizens trapped in ignorance.
A young boy named Simon arrives in London alone and with nothing but the
vague sense of a half-forgotten promise, to find someone, but he is thwarted.
What he finds instead is a new family—a gang of scavengers that patrols the
underbelly of London. Drawn in by an enigmatic and beautiful young leader
named Lucien, Simon quickly forgets what brought him to the place he has made
his home.
But Simon has a gift—the gift of holding on to memories—that will lead him to
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Anna
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Auckland, NZ
Anna Smaill is a classically trained violinist and published poet.
She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the International
Institute of Modern Letters (Wellington), an MA in English
Literature from the University of Auckland and a PhD in
contemporary American poetry from University College London.
She is the author of a book of poetry, The Violinist in Spring, and her
poems have been anthologized in New Zealand and the United
Kingdom. She lives in New Zealand with her husband, novelist Carl
Shuker, and their daughter.
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Regeneration
Stephanie Saulter
DESCRIPTION:
The gillungs - waterbreathing, genetically modified humans - are thriving. They've
colonised riverbanks and ports long since abandoned to the rising seas and the
demand for their high-efficiency technologies is growing fast.
But as demand grows, so do fears about their impact on both norm businesses and
the natural environment. Then, a biohazard scare at Sinkat, their colony on the
Thames, fuels the opposition and threatens to derail the gillungs' progress. But
was it an accident, or was it sabotage?
Detective Sharon Varsi has her suspicions, but her investigations are
compromised by family ties. And now there is a new threat: Zavcka Klist is about
to be released from prison - and she wants her company back.
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Scientifically realistic science fiction with an anthropological and sociological
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Stephanie Saulter writes what she likes to think is literary science
fiction. Born in Jamaica, she studied at MIT and spent fifteen years
in the USA before moving to London. In 2010 she launched the
Scriptopus interactive website for writing short fiction. Stephanie
blogs unpredictably at stephaniesaulter.com and tweets slightly
more reliably as @scriptopus.
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Dominus
Tom Fox
DESCRIPTION:
The Vatican Cathedral is packed to the rafters as Pope Gregory XVII leads the
congregation in mass. A cloaked stranger steps suddenly and fearlessly towards
the altar and commands the wheelchair-bound Pope to stand.
He does.
The miracle stops the world in its tracks. Who is this stranger?
More miraculous events follow and as the Vatican retreats and closes its doors to
the world, journalist Alexander Trecchio and police officer Gabriella Fierro set out
to find an explanation that might calm an increasingly hysterical nation.
Because the question on everyone's lips is what the stranger's arrival might
mean...and whether it finally heralds the End of Days.
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Tom Fox's storytelling emerges out of many years spent in
academia, working on the history of the Christian Church. A
respected authority on that subject, he has recently turned his
attentions towards exploring the new stories that can be drawn out
of its mysterious dimensions. Dominus is Tom's first novel.
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Quercus
What You Want
Constantine Phipps
DESCRIPTION:
Patrick is still in love with his separated wife. Returning with their son after a trip
to an amusement park, he begs, one last time, to reconcile with her. When she
refuses, he is driven to thoughtless desperation: a bottle of sleeping pills, a bottle
of whisky. And in his dying dream, he revisits that theme park of childish desire.
There he finds the landscape - still garish and indulgent - has evolved. The
attractions are religion, money and sex. The characters - costumed and acted - are
transformed into Jefferson, Xunzi, Aristotle. And their purpose is to instruct
Patrick in the pursuit of happiness throughout human history.
But Patrick can only answer with his own story. He remembers falling in love with
Louise. Recalls the enlightenment of their youth and the banality of their family
life. He tells of their marriage, how it came under strain after the birth of his son;
how he cheated; the unravelling of all his joy. Yet still his love persists.
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An
epic journey that combines literature, historic documents, and philosophy with a very human story
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London
Constantine Phipps was born in Yorkshire and is the author of
two previous novels: Careful with the Sharks and Among the Thin
Ghosts. For many years he has been involved in property
development and has interests in the UK and Canada. He lives in
London with his wife, the author Nicola Shulman, and has four
children.
pg 12
MacLehose Press
Look Who's Back
Timur Vermes, Jamie Bulloch
DESCRIPTION:
Look Who's Back is a cutting satire on modern media-bloated, celebrity-obsessed
society, seen through the eyes of Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. it is the Summer
of 2011 and things have changed—no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler
barely recognizes his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a
woman.
People certainly recognize him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to
break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler
goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to
listen. But the Fuhrer has another program with even greater ambition—to set the
country he finds a shambles back to rights.
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Vermes's fantasia scoots blithely around a fathomless abyss of bad taste
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Sold 1.5 million-copy in Germany and translation rights sold in 35 countries
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AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE:
Munich, Germany
The son of a German mother and a Hungarian father who fled the
country in 1956, Timur Vermes was born in Nuremberg in 1967.
He studied history and politics and went on to become a journalist.
He has written for the Abendzeitung and the Cologne Express and
worked for various magazines. He has ghostwritten several books
since 2007. This is his first novel.
Jamie Bulloch's translations include Ruth Maier's Diary, Portrait
of a Mother as a Young Women by F. C. Delius, and novels by Paulus
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Binary
Stephanie Saulter
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Zavcka Klist has reinvented herself: no longer the ruthless gemtech enforcer
determined to keep the gems they created enslaved, she's now all about
transparency and sharing the fruits of Bel'Natur's research to help gems and
norms alike.
Neither Aryel Morningstar nor Dr. Eli Walker are convinced that Klist or
Bel'Natur can have changed so dramatically, but the gems have problems that
only a gemtech can solve. In exchange for their help, digital savant Herran agrees
to work on Klist's latest project: reviving the science that drove mankind to the
brink of extinction.
Then confiscated genestock disappears from a secure government facility, and the
more DI Varsi investigates, the closer she comes to the dark heart of Bel'Natur
and what Zavcka Klist is really after—not to mention the secrets of Aryel
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Interested in developing social media for creative collaboration, in
2010 she launched www.scriptopus.com, an interactive website for
writing short fiction. She lives in London.
pg 14
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Knight's Shadow
Sebastien de Castell
DESCRIPTION:
Following his beloved debut, Traitor's Blade (a "swashbuckling romp packed with
charisma, camaraderie, quick wit and even quicker swordplay"-NPR), Sebastien
de Castell returns with volume two of his fast-paced fantasy adventure series,
inspired by the swashbuckling action and witty banter of The Three Musketeers.
Knight's Shadow continues the series with a thrilling and dark tale of heroism and
betrayal in a country crushed under the weight of its rulers' corruption.
A few days after the horrifying murder of a duke and his family, Falcio val Mond,
swordsman and First Cantor of the Greatcoats, begins a deadly pursuit to capture
the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison
administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies. As chaos
and civil war begin to overtake the country, Falcio has precious little time left to
stop those determined to destroy his homeland.
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AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE:
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Sebastien de Castell had just finished a degree in archaeology
when he started work on his first job. Four hours later he realized
how much he hated archaeology and left to pursue a very focused
career as a musician, ombudsman, interaction designer, fight
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Blood Wedding
Pierre Lemaitre
DESCRIPTION:
Sophie Duguet doesn't understand what's happening to her: she has begun losing
things. She is constantly forgetting things she's said and done, only to be
reminded by her acquaintances. She's even detained by the police for shoplifting—
a crime she has no memory of whatsoever.
But this is just the beginning. As she slowly sinks deeper into dementia, things go
from troubling to alarming. Soon she finds herself connected to the deaths of
several people around her: a neighbor boy she is babysitting is murdered; a
stranger seeks shelter with her and winds up dead; and finally, her employer is
killed in a way that suggests she was responsible. And she doesn't remember a
thing about any of it.
Desperate to escape the nightmare Sophie changes her name and relocates,
hoping to outrun the demons that plague her. But this may not be enough to stop
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Paris, France
Pierre Lemaitre is a psychologist by training and taught writing
courses for years. His novels have earned him exceptional critical
and public acclaim as a master of the crime novel. Alex won the
prestigious 2013 Crime Writers Association International Dagger
Award. In 2013 Lemaitre was the recipient of the prestigious Prix
Goncourt, the highest literary honor in France, for Au revoir là-haut,
published in North America as The Great Swindle.
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pg 16
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Tyrant's Throne
Sebastian deCastell
DESCRIPTION:
How do you kill a Saint?
Falcio, Kest, and Brasti are about to find out, because someone has figured out a
way to do it and they've started with a friend.
The Dukes were already looking for ways out of their agreement to put Aline on
the throne, but with the Saints turning up dead, rumours are spreading that the
Gods themselves oppose her ascension. Now churches are looking to protect
themselves by bringing back the military orders of religious soldiers, assassins,
and (especially) Inquisitors - a move that could turn the country into a theocracy.
The only way Falcio can put a stop to it is by finding the murderer. He has only
one clue: a terrifying iron mask which makes the Saints vulnerable by driving
them mad. But even if he can find the killer, he'll still have to face him in battle.
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Sebastien de Castell had just finished a degree in Archaeology
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career as a musician, ombudsman, interaction designer, fight
choreographer, teacher, project manager, actor, and product
strategist. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife.
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pg 17
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Entry Island
Peter May
DESCRIPTION:
Only two kilometers wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of
just more than 100 inhabitants, the wealthiest of whom has just been discovered
murdered in his home. Covered in her husband's blood, the dead man's wife spins
a tale about a masked intruder.
The investigation appears to be little more than a formality but Detective Sime
Mackenzie is electrified by the widow during his interview, convinced that he has
met her before, even though this is impossible. Haunted by this strange certainty,
Sime's insomnia is punctuated by vivid, hallucinatory dreams of a distant past on
a Scottish island 3,000 miles away, dreams in which he and the widow play
leading roles. Sime's conviction soon becomes an obsession and despite mounting
evidence he finds himself convinced of her innocence, leading to a conflict
between the professional duty he must fulfill and the personal destiny he is
increasingly sure awaits him.
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Thriller Club Best Read of the Year
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bestsellers
to a tiny, isolated English-speaking community of just over 100 people
in Québec's Madeline Islands
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Peter May is the multi award-winning author of the bestselling
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Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic
pathologist Margaret Campbell; and the critically acclaimed Enzo
Files. May lives in France with his wife, the writer Janice Hally.
www.petermay.co.uk
pg 18
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And Then Came Paulette
Barbara Constantine
DESCRIPTION:
When his son's family move away, widower Ferdinand is left with only a sadistic
kitten for company on a farm that was built for a family. Just as loneliness starts
to bite, he discovers his neighbor Marceline has long been shivering beneath a
leaky roof. He welcomes her to his farm, temporarily of course, and also provides
a home for her dog and her gluttonous donkey.
As each begrudgingly adjusts to the other's quirks, yet more new arrivals appear.
It seems that Ferdinand isn't the only one who was all-alone, and the dusty farm
becomes a haven for lost souls of every age to share their sorrows and set about
rediscovering their joie de vivre. Amidst the newfound hustle and bustle, one final
uninvited guest threatens to upset the apple cart once and for all. Constantine has
created a delightful and poignant novel of people coming together to create new
interpersonal relationships of support.
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Translation
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pg 19
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Ice Cold
Andrea Maria Schenkel
DESCRIPTION:
Munich in the late 1930s-the first years of fascism and the last before the war-is a
dangerous place. Kathie is desperate to leave her sheltered village life and sets out
for the city, determined that she'll get by, one way or another. She is dark-haired,
buxom and pretty, like the women who recently disappeared without a trace.
Young women are being found around Munich, abused and murdered. Josef
Kalteis has been arrested, but is he really responsible for all those misdeeds? Did
they execute the wrong one while the murderer is still on the loose?
Lost somewhere in between her naive search for luck and existential concerns,
occasional prostitution and the desire for true love, Kathie is in grave danger.
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in Bavaria, Germany. On publication in Germany, her first novel,
The Murder Farm, won the German Crime Prize as well as the
Friedrich-Glauser Prize.
pg 20
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Darkness Descending
Ken Jones
DESCRIPTION:
On January 5, 2003 former Special Forces soldier Ken Jones was caught in a
devastating avalanche as he climbed in the frozen wilderness of Romania's
Transylvanian Alps. Flung from a cliff, he regained consciousness to find himself
shrouded in darkness, separated from his supplies, and in horrendous pain from a
broken leg and shattered pelvis. Ken dragged himself to safety over three
agonizing days only to discover that his true ordeal had yet to begin.His story of
endurance and survival is an unforgettable testament to the strength of the human
spirit.
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Originally from Shropshire, Ken Jones spent many years serving in
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and various elements of UK Special Forces. He spent the years
following his recovery in South America where he worked on
disaster relief programs as a translator and demolitions specialist.
Jones is a motivational speaker, an avid outdoorsman, mountaineer,
competitive road cycle racer, and a founder of Avalanche Endurance
Events. Ken now lives between San Diego, CA and Elan Valley,
Wales
pg 21
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Emperors Once More
Duncan Jepson
DESCRIPTION:
On the same day as Senior Inspector Alex Soong of the Hong Kong police is
drafted in to help Inspector Mike De Suza with the investigation of the motiveless
murder of two Chinese Methodists in the financial district, the police are tipped
off to an apparently unrelated murder in a deserted warehouse: five people dead
in a scene of horror which echoes the ritualistic killings of the Boxer Rebellion.
Alex is shocked to be greeted by the concealed perpetrator and invited to join him
in reasserting China's global supremacy. Alex recruits historian Professor
Elizabeth Yi to help him research the cases' parallels with the Boxer killings.
Hong Kong is hosting an economic summit between the Chinese and the faltering
G8 powers —the stage is set for an explosive rewriting of history. When Alex will
not join the shadowy conspiratorst, they seize his wife and Professor Yi. He is
forced into the heart of the ancient conspiracy and the final stage of its campaign
to alter the balance of power.
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co-author of the graphic novel Darkness Outside of the Night.
Jepson is an award-winning director and producer of five feature
films. He has also produced documentaries for Discovery Channel
Asia and the National Geographic channel. A founder and former
managing editor of the Asia Literary Review. He is a lawyer and lives
in Hong Kong.
pg 22
Quercus
The Boy in the Shadows
Carl-Johan Vallgren
DESCRIPTION:
In an overcrowded Stockholm underground station a father and his two boys are
late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his stroller and his seven-yearold brother, Kristoffer, refuses to take the elevator.
A woman approaches and offers to lead Kristoffer up the stairs. Reluctantly his
father agrees, but when he arrives on the platform Kristoffer and the woman have
vanished without a trace.
Many years later, Joel, now an adult, goes missing in suspicious circumstances.
His wife turns to Danny Katz - an old friend - for help. But Katz isn't the only one
trying to find Joel, and the deeper he digs the more secrets he uncovers about the
wealthy and powerful family at the heart of the investigation. Then suddenly, the
case takes a dramatic new turn.
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Elements of mystery, thriller, and police procedural
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Sweden
Carl-Johan Vallgren has been awarded the Swedish August Prize
for Best Novel of the Year, and has been translated into 25
languages. He's also a talented musician with Warner Music.
Rachel Willson-Broyles is a freelance translator based in
Madison, Wisconsin. Her other translations include Jonas Hassen
Khemiri's novel Montecore and Jonas Jonasson's The Girl Who
Saved the King of Sweden among many others.
pg 23
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Oath of the Vayuputras
Amish Tripathi
DESCRIPTION:
Today, Shiva is a god. But four thousand years ago, he was just a man - until he
brought his people to Meluha, a near-perfect empire founded by the great king
Lord Ram. There he discovered he was the Neelkanth, a barbarian long
prophesied to be Meluha's savior.
But in his hour of victory fighting the Chandravanshis - Meluha's enemy - he
discovered they had their own prophecy.
Now he must fight to uncover the treachery within his inner circle, and unmask
those who are about to destroy all that he has fought for. Shiva is about to learn
that good and evil are two sides of the same coin...
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Mumbai, India
Amish Tripathi is an IIM-Calcutta-educated banker turned happy
author. The success of his debut book, The Immortals of Meluha
(Book 1 of the Shiva trilogy), encouraged him to give up a fourteenyear career in financial services to focus on writing. He is passionate
about history, mythology and philosophy and lives in Mumbai with
his wife Preeti and son Neel.
Follow on Twitter @authoramish
pg 24
MacLehose Press
The Bramard Case
David Longo
DESCRIPTION:
Corso Bramard lives in the mountains not far outside Turin. A former police
inspector , for twenty years he has kept out of the public eye following the death of
his wife and daughter - both brutally murdered by a serial killer. Periodically, the
murderer sends Bramard letters containing snippets of song lyrics by Leonard
Cohen, a cruel taunt and a dare. Bramard keeps them all, and spends his days
haunted by his twin obsessions: to find the man who destroyed his life, and to end
his own life altogether. Until one day he receives the killer's latest missive, and
everything changes; the murderer may have made a mistake, and given Bramard a
vital clue to begin the manhunt. Aided by his former colleagues and by Isa, an
unlikely cop with her unorthodox style of speech and dress, Corso gets back onto
the killer's trail.
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addition to novels, he writes books for children, short stories, and
articles
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The Child Eater
Rachel Pollack
DESCRIPTION:
On Earth, the Wisdom family has always striven to be more normal than normal.
But Simon Wisdom, the youngest child, is far from normal: he can see the souls of
the dead. And now the ghosts of children are begging him to help them, as they
face something worse than death. The only problem is, he doesn't know how.
In a far-away land of magic and legends, Matyas has dragged himself up from the
gutter and inveigled his way into the Wizards' college. In time, he will become
more powerful than all of them - but will his quest blind him to the needs of
others? For Matyas can also hear the children crying.
But neither can save the children alone, for the child eater is preying on two
worlds.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
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her expertise in Tarot, Pollack has fashioned an enchanting middle grade
novel of magic, wizards, and evil spirits
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Rachel Pollack is considered one of the world's foremost
authorities on the modern interpretation of the Tarot. She is a poet,
novelist, and a Tarot card and comic book artist. She is the recipient
of the Arthur C. Clarke and World Fantasy awards and has
published twelve books on the Tarot. She is a member of the
American Tarot Association and the International Tarot Society. She
has been conferred the title of Tarot Grand Master by the Tarot
Certification Board.
pg 26
MacLehose Press
Englishman in Madrid
Eduardo Mendoza
DESCRIPTION:
Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an
aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de
Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are
bringing the country ever closer to civil war.
The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for
London the duque's daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure, held
for years in the cellars of her ancestral home. Afraid that the duque will cash in his
wealth to finance the Falange, the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye
on the Englishman, who is also being watched by his own embassy.
As Whitelands—ever the fool for a pretty face—vies with Primo de Rivera for
Paquita's affections, he learns of a final interested party: Madrid is crawling with
Soviet spies, and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize.
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Eduardo Mendoza was born in Barcelona in 1943. He studied
Law and worked as an U.N. interpreter in the United States for nine
years. He is the author of The City of Marvels and the recipient of
the Premio Planeta and the European Book Prize.
Nick Caistor's translations include The Buenos Aires Quintet by
Manuel Vazquez Montalban and works by Eduardo Mendoza, Juan
Marse, Alan Pauls and Guillermo Orsi.
pg 27
Quercus
Can Anybody Help Me?
Sinead Crowley
DESCRIPTION:
It was crazy really, she had never met the woman, had no idea of her real name
but she thought of her as a friend. Or, at least, the closest thing she had to a friend
in Dublin. Struggling with a new baby, Yvonne turns to netmammy, an online
forum for mothers, for support. Drawn into a world of new friends, she spends
increasing amounts of time online and volunteers more and more information
about herself.
When one of her new friends goes offline, Yvonne thinks something is wrong, but
dismisses her fears. After all, does she really know this woman?
But when the body of a young woman with striking similarities to Yvonne's
missing friend is found, Yvonne realizes that they're all in terrifying danger. Can
she persuade Sergeant Claire Boyle, herself about to go on maternity leave, to take
her fears seriously?
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Irish Times bestseller
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Sinead Crowley is Arts and Media Correspondent for RTE,
Ireland's national broadcaster. Working for radio, television and
online, she has covered stories ranging from general elections to the
Eurovision Song Contest, and has reported from locations including
Southern Africa, Azerbaijan and the Oscars. A self-confessed
internet addict, she discovered the world of parenting websites when
on maternity leave with her first child. Sinead lives in Dublin with
her husband and two young sons.
pg 28
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Netymology
From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World
Tom Chatfield
DESCRIPTION:
Composed of 100 bite-sized entries of 400 to 600 words each, Netymology weaves
together stories, etymologies and analyses around digital culture's transformation
and vocabulary. Chatfield presents a kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tour
through the buried roots of the symbols, speech, and mannerisms we have
inherited from the digital age: from the @ and Apple symbols, to HTML and
Trojan horses, to the twisted histories of new forms of slang, memes, text
messages and gaming terms; how language itself is being shaped by technology,
how it is changing us.
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AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE:
London, England
Tom Chatfield is a British writer and commentator. The author of
four books exploring digital culture—most recently How to Thrive in
the Digital Age. Tom is also a fortnightly columnist for the BBC, a
TED Global speaker, international commentator and broadcaster.
He completed a doctorate in English at St. John's College, Oxford,
before moving to London, where he lives with his wife and two cats.
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Jo Fletcher Books
Seoul Survivors
Naomi Foyle
DESCRIPTION:
A global warming has wreaked havoc on the planet. There is only one safe place to
be: in the mountains above Seoul. Korean-American bioengineer Dr. Kim Da Mi is
convinced she has found the perfect solution to save the human race but her
methods are strange and her business partner, Johnny Sandman, is an unsavory
character with many secrets.
Seduced by the visionary scientist, aspiring model Sydney begins helping Da Mi
create a new breed of human beings to staff a revolutionary theme park:
VirtuWorld. As the Winter Solstice looms, the internet is rife with rumors that a
devastating meteor heading straight toward Earth. VirtuWorld would be a haven
from eco-apocalypse, but its success demands a sacrifice—just whose blood will
spill is far from certain until the final pages of this tense cyber-thriller.
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Naomi Foyle was born in London and grew up in Hong Kong,
Liverpool, and Canada; currently, she lives in Brighton. She spent
three years in Korea teaching English, writing travel journalism, and
acting in Korean educational television. She is a highly regarded
poet and performer. Seoul Survivors is her first novel.
pg 30
Jo Fletcher Books
The Language of Dying
Sarah Pinborough
DESCRIPTION:
A woman sits at her father's bedside watching the clock tick away the last hours of
his life. Her brothers and sisters - all traumatized in their own ways, their bonds
fragile - have been there for the past week, but now she is alone.
And that's always when it comes.
As the clock ticks in the darkness, she can only wait for it to find her...
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Sarah Pinborough was a teacher, but now writes full-time. She is
developing an original horror screenplay, Cracked, and her
supernatural crime series, The Dog-Faced Gods, for TV. She has also
written episodes for the popular BBC crime drama New Tricks. She
lives in West London.
pg 31
Jo Fletcher Books
Unholy War
David Hair
DESCRIPTION:
Tensions are mounting after a devastating battle before the walls of Shaliyah,
birthplace of the Prophet. The East is rising, bringing equal measures of hope and
despair to the magical world of Urte.
For some Salim's victory is a call to arms, for others it is evidence of a world gone
mad. While the armies of East and West clash in brutal conflict, emperors,
inquisitors, Souldrinkers, and assassins all have their attention turned elsewhere
as they hunt the Scytale of Corineus. The immensely powerful artifact is the key to
ultimate power, and it's in the hands of unlikely guardians: failed mage Alaron
Mercer and market-girl Ramita Ankesharan, who carries the child of the world's
greatest mage. The fate of the world hinges on destruction should the artifact fall
into the wrong hands.
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third book in David Hair's acclaimed Moontide Quartet
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Brandon Sanderson.
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AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE:
Wellington, NZ
David Hair is the award-winning writer of two YA fiction series,
The Aotearoa (set in New Zealand), and The Return of Ravana
(based on the Vedic epic The Ramayana). Mage's Blood is his first
work of adult fantasy and the first in his brand-new Moontide
Quartet. Hair was raised in New Zealand, and after briefly settling
down in Britain and India and traveling the world, he now lives in
Wellington, New Zealand.
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Quercus
100 Things You Will Never Do
Daniel Smith
DESCRIPTION:
Ever fancied traveling through time? Taming a lion? Winning a Nobel Prize? Well,
here's how to attempt all that and more. Daniel Smith—author of 100 Places You
Will Never Visit—takes you on an entertaining journey through 100 things you
will (probably) never get the chance to do.
Offering tips and advice on things that you may never be rich enough to do (buy
your own island, drink a bottle of 1787 Château Lafite, own a Shakespeare first
folio); things you might never be brave enough to try (bullfight, base jump from
the Burj Khalifa, charm a snake); things you'll hopefully never have to do (escape
from Alcatraz, land a 747, play Russian roulette); and even the downright absurd
(being in two places at once, making gold, becoming invisible), 100 Things You
Will Never Do will give you a glimpse of your infinite potential.
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London
Daniel Smith is an author and researcher. His books include The
Sherlock Holmes Companion, The Lucky Bugger's Casebook and a
history of the Second World War Dig For Victory campaign. He is
also a long-time contributor to The Statesman's Yearbook, an annual
geopolitical guide to the countries of the world. He lives in London.
pg 33
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Magna Carta
The Medieval Roots of Modern Politics
David Starkey
DESCRIPTION:
In 1215, King John I of England faced a domestic crisis. He had just lost an
expensive campaign to retake his ancestral lands in France, an unfortunate
adventure that he had funded by heavily taxing the baronial lords of England. Sick
of the unpopular king's heavy-handed rule, and unimpressed by the king's
unsuccessful attempt to seize Normandy, the feudal barons united to make
demands of their sovereign for certain protections.
In this erudite, entertaining book, award-winning historian and television
presenter David Starkey untangles historical and modern misconceptions about
one of the founding documents of democracy. Along the way, he shows how the
Magna Carta laid the foundation for the British constitution, influenced the
American Revolution and the U.S. constitution, and continues to shape
jurisprudential thinking about individual rights around the world today.
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marks the 800th anniversary of one of the founding documents of modern
democracy, which will be celebrated around the world
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of the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary
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David Starkey is an Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge, and the author of Elizabeth, Six Wives: The Queens of
Henry VIII, and Henry: Virtuous Prince. He is a winner of the
Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History and of the WH
Smith Prize. He is well-known for his historical television series
focusing on the Tudors, monarchy, and Britain, and for his frequent
radio appearances. Starkey was made a CBE in 2007 and lives in
London.
pg 34
MacLehose Press
News from Berlin
Otto de Kat
DESCRIPTION:
In War time Europe Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral
Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in
London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl, a
"good" German who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Briefly reunited with her father in a restaurant in Geneva, Emma drops a
bombshell. A date and a codename, and the fate of nations is placed in
Verschuur's hands: June 22, Barbarossa.
What should he do? Warn the world, or put his daughter's safety first? The
Gestapo are watching them both. And with Stalin lulled by his alliance with Hitler,
will anyone even listen?
Otto de Kat is fast gaining a reputation as one of Europe's sharpest and most lucid
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Otto de Kat, born in 1946, lives and works as a publisher and
novelist in Amsterdam. Man on the Move was the winner of
Holland's Halewijn Literature Prize.
pg 35
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Asking For It
Louise O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:
Emma O'Donovan is eighteen, beautiful, and fearless. It's the beginning of
summer and she and her friends have dressed to impress. Everyone is at the party,
and all eyes are on Emma.
The next morning Emma's parents discover her collapsed on the doorstop of their
home. She is disheveled, bleeding, and disoriented, looking as if she were
discarded.
To her distress, Emma can't remember what happened the night before. All she
knows is that none of her friends will respond to her texts. At school, people turn
away from her. She may not remember the events of the previous evening, but
someone has posted photos on Facebook under a fake account, "Easy Emma"—
photos she will never be able to forget. As the photos go viral and a criminal
investigation is launched, the community is thrown into tumult. The media
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Louise O'Neill's first book, Only Ever Yours was awarded the 2014 Sunday
Independent
Newcomer of the Year Award at the BGE Irish Book Awards
A longtime sufferer of body-image issues and eating disorders, O'Neill has a
penetrating
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Louise O'Neill is the author of Only Ever Yours, which won the YA
Book Prize, among other distinctions. She was born in west Cork in
1985. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin and has worked
for the senior style director of American Elle magazine. She is
currently working as a freelance journalist and YA author.
louiseoneillauthor.com
facebook.com/louiseoneillauthor
Follow on Twitter @oneillo
pg 36
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Alice and the Fly
James Rice
DESCRIPTION:
Greg is cripplingly shy. He's not exactly the most popular kid at his high school. In
fact, he pretty much goes out of his way to avoid talking to anybody he doesn't
have to. And it doesn't help that he has a severe lisp.
But Greg's English teacher, Miss Hayes, can see that there's something different
about him. He's insightful and sensitive beyond his years, and maybe—he'll use
these strengths to break out of his shell someday. Miss Hayes urges Greg to keep a
journal. "This isn't an assignment, just write down your thoughts."
Greg begins to write about everything from his mother's ill-conceived interior
decorating ideas to his job at the local butcher's shop. When Greg begins to take
an interest in a girl at his school named Alice, he realizes that he will have to face
his most paralyzing anxieties if he wants to befriend Alice and help her escape
from her violent family life.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
Features
a narrator with deep insecurities but incredible powers of observation,
reminiscent of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A coming-of-age tale that is both a mystery and an unsettling portrait of mental
illness
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Liverpool, UK
James Rice lives in Liverpool. In 2011 he completed an MA in
Writing at Liverpool John Moores University and has since finished
his debut novel, Alice and the Fly— the first chapter of which won
the Writing On The Wall Festival's novel-writing competition 'Pulp
Idol.' He also writes short stories, several of which have been
published.
Follow on Twitter @@James_D_Rice
pg 37
Quercus
Air
Lisa Glass
DESCRIPTION:
Iris and Zeke get to travel to the most beautiful beaches in the world, competing in
major surf competitions. Life should be perfect, but when Zeke is suspended from
a surf tour in Hawaii, it's clear there is some deep trouble in paradise. And then
there's Zeke's romantic past: at every turn Iris is confronted by his old flames and
his hordes of female fans.
Returning to Newquay, Iris finds that at home things have also changed. Her
friends have moved on with their lives, and they sense Iris is keeping something something bad - from them.
What really happened in Hawaii? Why was Zeke kicked off the circuit? And what
secret is tearing Iris and Zeke's relationship apart?
KEY SELLING POINTS:
The
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Sexy
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England
Lisa Glass is the author of the Blue trilogy of teen novels. Lisa is
also co-administrator and book reviewer at literary website Vulpes
Libris, which was described by Robert McCrum in The Observer as
"a highly responsible blog" and by The Times as "a literary blog
publishing honest and informed book reviews almost daily."
pg 38
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Stormwalker
Mike Revell
DESCRIPTION:
Ever since his mother died, 11-year-old Owen has felt lost. He's drifting apart from
his dad, his grades are dropping, and the only thing keeping him sane are the
soccer trials coming up.
Then, in the middle of school one day, he is sucked out of real life and thrown into
a new, terrifying world, a largely deserted wasteland where a menacing storm of
Darkness plagues the city. Terrifying as this new world is, Owen recognizes it—it's
the setting of his Dad's new novel. Fueled by his grief, Owen's Dad has conjured a
world so real and so fraught that Owen is transported within it every time his Dad
writes. Owen has to live out every word in the story.
But each jump devours chunks of his real life, he misses days of school, and even a
key soccer game. Owen desperately wants these events to stop. But, what if
finishing the story and battling the Darkness is the only way Owen can save
KEY SELLING POINTS:
Explores
themes of loss, grief, and how to help a grieving parent
The
literary heir of David Almond, Revell uses magical elements to show how kids
cope with difficult emotions
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AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE:
North Wales
Mike Revell is the author of the highly acclaimed Stonebird, which
was influenced by the real experiences of seeing his grandmother
suffer from dementia. Revell currently lives near Cambridge, where
he is a sports journalist.
www.mikerevell.com
facebook.com/http://facebook.com/mike.revell1
pg 39
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Blue
Lisa Glass
DESCRIPTION:
Surfing is sixteen-year-old Iris's world, and when the ultra-talented Zeke walks
into her life, it soon becomes her passion.
Over one amazing summer, as she is drawn into his sphere, she experiences love,
new friendships, but also loss, with an intensity she never dreamed of.
But is Zeke all he seems? What hides beneath his glamorous and mysterious past?
When Iris decides to try for her own surfing success, just as her ex-boyfriend
comes back into her life, she will test her talent, and her feelings for Zeke, to the
limit.
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BISAC CATEGORIES:
JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance
SPORTS & RECREATION / Surfing
AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE:
United Kingdom
Lisa Glass has always lived a stone's throw from the beach, moving
from Plymouth to Swansea—where she took an MA in Creative
Writing—and finally to Newquay in Cornwall, where she now lives
with her husband, daughter and dog. Lisa is part of the team behind
Vulpes Libris which was selected by the Observer as one of the best
literary blogs in the UK.
https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com
Follow on Twitter @TheSeaSection
pg 40
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Stonebird
Mike Revell
DESCRIPTION:
When 10-year-old Liam's family moves to be near his grandmother who is
suffering from dementia, he's left to navigate his new neighborhood, school and
grandmother's illness all by himself. Life it isn't easy.
Liam finds solace is a rundown church where an over-sized gargoyle that keeps
drawing him in. After learning that they were created to protect people from
demons, he can't seem to shake the image of the stone bird and its presence. Shy
Liam's only means of confidence during shared storytime is to tell tales of the
gargoyle. His classmates are soon captivated by his storytelling, and his teacher's
encouragement fuels Liam's belief in the bird.
As his home life gets harder and the bullies more relentless the gargoyle seemingly
brings Liam's stories to life—swooping in to protect and defend him in the most
unexpected ways. Is the old stone bird really alive?
KEY SELLING POINTS:
Inspired
to read and write from his passion as a child reading Harry Potter
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As
a highly promotable and unusual background. Revell studied creative writing in
college, then became British sports journalist, who has a passion telling myths and
fables
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BISAC CATEGORIES:
Bullying
JUVENILE FICTION / Paranormal
AUTHOR'S RESIDENCE:
England
Mike Revell currently lives near Cambridge where he is a sports
journalist. Stonebird is Mike's first novel and is influenced by the
real experiences of seeing his grandmother suffer from dementia, as
well as his love of myths.
http://www.mikerevell.com
facebook.com/http://facebook.com/mike.revell1
pg 41
Quercus
Sammy Feral's Diaries of Weird: Vampire Attack
Eleanor Hawken
DESCRIPTION:
Together with his cryptozoologist friends Red and Donny, Sammy Feral
investigates weird creatures like werewolves, yetis and dragons. When a whole
village of children goes missing, Sammy knows something weird is going on again.
A black cat begins following him everywhere, and a legion of vampire bats descend
on his own village. Then, Sammy's little sister Natty gets really ill, with a strange
bruise on her neck.
Thanks to his CSC talent (cross-species-communication) Sammy discovers that
the cat is here to warn him about evil bats led by the evil Count Batula. The only
way to increase their numbers is by biting children, Sammy's sister does not have
much time. The gang create a plan to kill Count Batula, which cat believes will
release the other bats back to their normal state.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
Combines
supernatural appeal of Skulduggery Pleasant with humor of Diary of a
Wimpy Kid
Accessible diary format with animal fact files and quirky illustrations that will
appeal
to young readers
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BISAC CATEGORIES:
JUVENILE FICTION / Paranormal
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure /
General
coverage,
excerpts, posting of exclusive content, giveaways and more: List will
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MundieMomKids,
Education.com, NY Metro Parent, middle-grade ninja,
imaginary
reads
and
more
After a childhood devouring books, Eleanor Hawken devised the
fiction series WILL SOLVIT and has written books under the
pseudonym Zed Storm. She is also the author of book for teens, The
Blue Lady. Eleanor now lives in North London.
John Kelly is a prolific children's book illustrator and author, as
well as a digital concept artist for the film industry. Among his many
books are Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Scoop! Kelly lives in
London.
http://eleanorhawken.wordpress.com/
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True Dark
Gary Meehan
DESCRIPTION:
With the help of her two companions—Eleanor, an eccentric aristocrat and skilled
swordswoman, and Damon, a strong-willed charmer with a dark past—and armed
just with her wits and determination, teenaged Megan now faces a world of
danger with a newborn infant on her hip. The unstoppable witch army is growing
in strength as it strives to seize absolute power, but a prophecy hints that their
aims are connected to the fate of a child—Megan's newborn daughter. Hordes of
witches are closing in on the small group of adventurers, but they may have
underestimated the lengths to which the newly empowered Megan will go to
protect her child.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
Sequel
to True Fire
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JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women
Strong,
young female lead which will appeal to young women
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